John McCain
"we had a code of conduct"
"It was long ago and far away in a prison camp in North Vietnam.
My father was a high-ranking admiral. The Vietnamese came and said that
I could leave prison early. And we had a code of conduct that said you
only leave by order of capture. I also had a dear and beloved friend
who was from California named Ev Alvarez, who had been shot down and
captured a couple of years before me. But I wasn't in good physical
shape. In fact, I was in rather bad physical shape. And so I said no.
... But I said no, and I'll never forget sitting in my last answer,
and the high- ranking officer who offered it slammed the door and the
interrogator said, "Go back to your cell. It's going to be very tough
on you now." And it was; but not only the toughest decision I ever made,
but I'm most happy about that decision than any decision I ever made
in my life. Could I finally say, it look a lot of prayer. It took a
lot of prayer."
Compiled by Thomas George
editor@liberty-vs-tyranny.com/
